470 Anali/tical Notices of Books. 



Ornithologia ; or The Birds. A Poem. By J. Jennings. \1mo. 



Of the Poem, as it is termed, we need not speak ; the notes 

 embrace the whole of the science of this attempt at a popular 

 illustration of one of the most attractive departments of Zoology. 

 They are well compiled, and convey much valuable information. 

 We would only suggest that in reading them the attention should 

 be directed entirely to the facts which they contain, and by no 

 means to the explanations given by Mr. Jennings of the scien- 

 tific views of higher naturalists, which in some instances he 

 evidently does not comprehend. 



Illustrations of British Entomology ; or a Synopsis of Indigenous 

 Insects: by J. F. Stephens, JBsg., F.L.S., Sfc. Nos. i — viii. 

 With Plates. Svo. London^ 1827. 



To the extent and accuracy of the knowledge of our native 

 Insects possessed by Mr. Stephens the united voice of British 

 Entomologists has long borne testimony. His cabinet stands un- 

 rivalled in number of species and of specimens, and affords in its 

 extreme richness the best opportunity of well illustrating that 

 vast department of our Fauna to which the attention of its owner 

 has been for years almost exclusively directed. Mr. Stephens 

 has also collected zealously and extensively, and has thus made 

 himself practically acquainted with the manners and oeconomy 

 of the objects of his study; and he is moreover well versed in 

 the works of those authours who have specially applied them- 

 selves to the elucidation of the Natural History and Species of 

 Insects. From the pen of such a man we are entitled to expect 

 a standard and valuable work, adapted to the present advanced 

 state of the science, aud calculated to fix tlie unsettled ideas 

 and nomenclature which had prevailed so extensively among us. 



Our expectations are not deceived ; though they would un- 

 doubtedly have been more fully and more speedily gratified had 



